The World - News from Feb. 13, 1985
Israeli-backed militiamen of the South Lebanon Army abandoned all their major posts in the southern port city of Sidon. The pullout of the predominantly Christian militia left only a small contingent of Israeli soldiers in the Sidon area. By next Monday, the last units of Israeli soldiers will have moved south from Sidon in the first step of a three-stage withdrawal from Lebanon.
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